you have given us no choice but perhaps take our business elsewhere. this was a clear fred the year to represent sixty percent of western europe's industrial output this was blackmailing. why did not a single government say anything about the deck or taylor hicks. or about the other frets that followed. they were elected representatives. but we felt that this was a betrayal and we wanted to do something about it it's important for a bigger public to know about this and we decided to publish a book. and besides collecting data we started to make interviews.

undercover interviews. finally in spring one thousand nine hundred seventy we assembled the results of our investigations and interviews into a report europe. was scheduled to launch for the big east summit in them so that all the media would be there we were excited as. we had prepared the book launch and how from all before the first friend started arriving . very little or no press showed up. so unfortunately our first public events was really not noticed as part of. the job to the writers down this road block today and groove a key exercise the strength of the rule system of baltar doubtful craig.

and perhaps most important the establishment of a stronger broadly. brain organized. by started to work on the financial services gets negotiations and that was really the time where i discovered this is really interesting and like we'd like to do that. we've come to the end of the most reaching negotiation at. the negotiators of the one hundred seventeen governments and richie vtam extraordinary success. with your approval therefore my gavel to your acquiring. the internal market that. was becoming a very important market reach market was a high g.d.p.

per capita and that when the european union was going outside and negotiate as a bloc they had a real power because it was a biggest exporter the biggest importer the biggest foreign investor. but so in britain the trade commission of the european union was complaining that i was every time he was going to negotiate with the united states in front of me we see his counterpart here you have your office and garden sushi through the stories and on his back he would have c.e.o.'s of big banks a big insurance company telling please do that for me please do that for us but when charlie and britain was turning his back to see where his report was he was actually having only some minister saying don't do this don't do that and please do that it only but not more and he was really not very happy. that. we discovered that there is a whole world of lobbyists in washington to tell their government what they want in the trade association. and we thought this is the way we have to go we have to do

something like that the european institutions is asking for it in the european situation cannot only rely on the information given by the member states and the expert in the finance ministry by the need to get information directly from the the banks of the insurance company. so they're not a point in time european trade commission a so in britain decided ok there is association and not really serious about this issue i am going to invite for dinner fourteen see you of the major services companies in europe so it's about big banks big telecom big insurance big decisions services big transport services big tourism companies when you take all the different sectors it is actually making about seventy percent of the g.d.p. in europe so we invited the bunch of forty of those. and. after dinner he said well now that you've got some some food by the commission you

owe me something you have to do something for me people sometimes think that the commission comes up with ideas out of the blue pushes them it's not a tool could be thirsty for ideas from could not be acton's to hopeless to decide i want to put food. this is where the idea of creating a network of association and companies pushing for the trade in service if you buy the private sector came up and became managing director of the open services for. her. in general nine hundred ninety nine we had. eleven months to prepare seattle first. ministerial conference after the creation of this organisation in ninety four and the idea was. that system meeting is going to

lounge the millenium brown that's so you britain had so much push for. britain never got to see how tall the inter commission had to resign because of the massive frauds several commissioners were involved in. the millennium round itself took a completely unexpected turn. i was based in the hotel and as a conference was in the sheraton five hundred metres away and i have not been allowed to go out of the hotel because it was one protester blocking the door by lying. and it was a police officer beside him and asking can i go outside please i would like to go and do my job. i was going to assist his allowance of the c.s. around so that we will enter into a new phase a negotiation for liver is a liver is a shot of the service. i remember that commissioner let me as been blocking i mean

he has been able to enter he's caught but the car couldn't move because of those people they're just there and the policeman say please go away in five metres so that the i leave v.i.p. here can do its job. many n.g.o.s say that yourself is a secret secret organisation having secret meetings you can commission all the everything is on their website i mean i am doing my job by contacting the commission with officials responsible for my file if anybody else would like to do the same there's a phone number he's on the in the on the website i'm just doing my job and i don't have anything specific but is a commission has some relationship with the surface because it commission is willing to get some information from the services sector is before negotiating on their behalf because this is what we're talking about trade is done by companies not by n.g.o.s. this is the only. dinner at the friends if you're

a she's really afraid repeat russel's organize a friend look at salsa people from different countries different jobs different walks of life who do all interested in. how can you develop how can we right things to do wrong and how can we build a lot we've already done. every coolest thing trying to. think tanks in brussels are feeling a part of the vacuum that existed that you would have thought that there was no european public to base. the syntax to step into that vacuum and they are the forums in which something like a debate happens inside the brussels bubble. there are national politicians here european politicians mysterious civil servant said the dreaded you know it creates a good diplomat story of businessmen get their faces through universities will still see people wondering about bristles it's

a bit like you really if you would be told still want to not read or when i would simply be on to the lot of my job is to keep in contact. think tanks are not themselves lobbyists but they are part of the landscape of lobby because companies use them to transmit their demands from their their perspectives and all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding. several people are sponsoring it microsoft is one of the american business presently to do it microsoft is one of the why not. have had think tanks in brussels that were directly from the by the oil industry and that we're working to. sort out about whether it or such a thing as climate change and whether it's important for governments to have access to as you seem to emissions. or. you can set up research institutes. to provide you with. research that's kind of strengthens

your position. you can launch message p.r. campaigns and flood the media with your information. what also happens is setting up fake n.g.o.s as happened in the big battle about the software patents law suddenly there were these advertisements from an enduro that's said it was representing small and medium sized companies but the financial backers of this n.g. over microsoft and it's the people. in the end it's all about money in the workers here it's one person one fault but in the brussels baseness it's one euro one fault the problem it's we don't know about the money behind politics we don't know how much is being spent on lobbying by whom and on which issues. we need to put this on the democrats control it has to be made visible what the role is of lobbying in the

of decision making what is the role of a large company like monsanto or shell. these children. they're serving a sentence just like their mother. little one. now almost

a sense of crimes committed by their parents. are cheating.

i. so one of my first testimonies before the european commission was a very very awakening spirits. but. i had one commissioner interrupt me and say well we understand you had a problem in the united states with lobbying activities but he went on to say but you know this is brussels and this is europe we don't have that kind of activity going on here which just kind of floored me that anyone could be so naive. more perhaps the fact of answer was ok i'll concede that

a lot of these k. street lobbyists and the professional lobbyists here in the united states may be corrupt however i know every major k. street lobby shop also has a lobby shop in brussels and so we're in your bed europe don't you want to know if you think that we are so corruptible and so corrupting don't you want to know who we are and who's paying for us and what it is we're trying to get you to do for us. we have to decide to regulate lobbying for a long time in two thousand and four the new commission came in and for the first time ten eastern european countries were part of. the first burns the commission started its in autumn two thousand and four we wrote

an open letter to the commission president. signed by over fifty n.g.o.s. i would just like to say thank you. that's a very sincere thank you for the confidence which you just voiced and invested in me and i'd like to say to you that i understand this is a vote of confidence as also implying huge responsibility on my part and we are going to work hard give our all to serve europe to serve the institutions of the european union and to serve all our coast citizens of europe that. the response was a very short formal letter saying we received your letter sent you very interesting

. no substantial response. so we sent a similar letter to all the presidents of the commission. and suddenly towards the end of february we were contacted by the office of the same color as commissioner from estonia responsible for administration inviting us to come over. so we went to mr callouses office which was somewhere in the top of the building. we didn't know what we had to expect from this meeting we had never been approached by a commission so in that sense it was very exciting we welcomed by mr cullison himself and one of his cabinet members. is the colors of the brochure and that made us smile it was a lovely plan of god to brussels which was. very critical look at industry lobbying

in the e.u. written by eric and me in our our colleagues. when i started the. commission and i really sold out several says so weak suspicion surrounding said this isn't making in european union. of course i. say establish for myself a purpose to reduce these suspicions. he was going to launch this european transparency initiative and we immediately. become political. business. sense for. us. to get on with the industry. european commission is going to activities of interests represent the. decision making process have

to happen in a transparent manner the commission can see that's important to know. what the interests they represent and against what financial background. of say efforts to do creates a speech or to make the speech. of course outlined main principles of transparency initiative which will be done. a lot of controversial reactions and if you know without financial transparency we'll never find out who really is behind the campaign. a little bit more control on ourselves wouldn't harm our reputation with our voters. transparency must not for closer contact with real life with interest groups or groups without interest thank you commissioner callous and certainly understand this. the european

union was considering the european transparency initiative they were looking for some advice as to how some of these achievements happened in the us and as a result it was brought out about half a dozen different times to testify before the year. being commissioned in the european parliament to tell the truth i was very impressed with the same color as when i first started working with him in the european commission some callers helped really are sure the whole significance of needing transparency. he was very adamant at first about setting up a mandatory disclosure system full transparency but halfway through the process some colors came up against the political reality and. after free years of struggle and political fight and exhausted commission and set the stage to finally launch a lobby register

a good. would know them. all off and. so quite that remarkable moment today. three years ago i proposed to set up the register of lobbyists i mean all of the enhanced transparency and and legitimacy i want you to see in making process and. openness from today. so we proposed voluntary solution because i was i am convinced that cease would suit for all expect basins and i think that two days there is a very important moment of cultural change. concerning zeese. aspect of this is making in european institutions. some colors introduced a voluntary system against all recommendations by n.g.o.s and the experts this was

the best he could get. we've tried for over two years now to find out who had blocked colossus or original intention. where it's other commissioners the commission secretary and the lobbyist themselves. one month after the financial crisis started in october two thousand and eight. appointed that independent high level group on financial supervision. the group was to work our proposals for the regulation of the financial markets and to find a way out of the financial crisis. eight so-called wise men were appointed to this group. shocked a lot and i must say that on the reading of my easing mccarty

nashik culture over each disappeared as fernandes and last nuba. we looked into the independence of this independent group and we found some s. honestly thinks. the legacy is the co-chair of a financial lobby organization. to lehman brothers. greeting to citi group leasing to goldman sachs. mccarty nuber and bunch of always are notorious deregulators. and paris fernandes works to provide financial market intelligence. three of the eight were directly linked to american banks all of which were directly involved in causing the crisis. which in addition closely into american right wing think tanks like the cato

institute was one of the closest advisors to the bush administration he was also involved in the earlier earthing times in brussels and poland and the u.k. . of a single of these wise men who was in favor of strict regulation now the single one of them was really independence and the effect of these eight wise men on overcoming the financial crisis was zero the main thing that happened lost a lot of public money was flowing to the banks. as if. this whole affair has a horrible sense of deserve all the same financial institutions that were bailed out with taxpayers' money i know making a fortune from greece's misfortune by those same taxpayers are paying the price in

deep cuts to their salaries and social services. after twenty years of deregulation and liberalisation suddenly the european union herself was at the edge of being blown up. what is at stake is not only the european union but also democracy and the future of the values that we hold dear. was a dis what we europeans had wanted. wasn't really naive to have a european dream. it is in the human nature and you are not on the good you always have a bad side some. and we need to make sure that we keep only the good and therefore

you need relation. when you live in a society you have groups because otherwise people are going to fasten on on the motorway because people are not respected elders because the stronger take this place is this is a human nature what we have done to go and make sure that we live together is by creating legislation in place by creating an authority that everyone respect. or.

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